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Born December 19, 1831 • Germany
Died December 22, 1865 (aged 34)
Subjects Of Study Jurassic Period • fossil
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Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
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Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
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Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
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Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
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William Joscelyn Arkell
British paleontologist
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
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Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
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Johann Gottlob Lehmann
German geologist
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
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Georg Christian Füchsel
German geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist

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